obasans

Noun

obasan (plural obasans)

1. A Japanese middle-aged woman.
   • Some day Japanese women may be seen parading the streets bearing banners on which are written “Votes for Women,”—at least what appears to be a movement in this direction was inaugurated last week, says the Far East, when a public meeting for women was held at the Kanda Y. M. C. A. under the...1913 March 6, The Japan Chronicle, old series, number 819; new series, number 583, Kobe, page 423
2. A Japanese aunt.
   • "This woman really my aunt, my obasan, but I call her my grandmother, obaasan.[…]"1985, Kenneth Fenter, Mo Ichido, Once More: An American Family in Japan, the Second Year, Cross Cultural Press, →ISBN, page 25